We Make Zines2015-08-02T20:31:49ZAlyciahttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alyciahttp://api.ning.com:80/files/lp1osW7MVuE-XWRjB48L9OFusOQfWz2eYD8-kZ*Ld*CRqu3Nkv39JyCakSO8jLPTB0rbgwcWN7if2mkNmcHzx6oF94ioVM69/5343335304_15a57020e3.jpg?width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://wemakezines.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=2ztq12hoazkes&feed=yes&xn_auth=noPostal Confusion Againtag:wemakezines.ning.com,2015-07-28:2288844:Topic:4322742015-07-28T19:03:01.683ZAlyciahttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alycia
<p>Okay. I was at the post office a month or so ago and I learned that the 2nd oz. had gone up. I bought a bunch of 2nd out stamps, but I wasn't really listening when the clerk said how much they'd gone up. So I just looked it up to make sure I'm calculating my postage right on my larger envelopes. The 2nd oz. is now 21 cents. Here's the link I found:…</p>
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<p>Okay. I was at the post office a month or so ago and I learned that the 2nd oz. had gone up. I bought a bunch of 2nd out stamps, but I wasn't really listening when the clerk said how much they'd gone up. So I just looked it up to make sure I'm calculating my postage right on my larger envelopes. The 2nd oz. is now 21 cents. Here's the link I found:</p>
<p><a href="https://stamps.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1685/~/may-2015-usps-rate-changes">https://stamps.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1685/~/may-2015-usps-rate-changes</a></p>
<p>It says that the old 1 oz first class letter rate was 48 cents. I could've have sworn it was 49 cents. I even dug up an old newsletter that the publisher only accepts cash and stamps for, and he has it listed as 49 cents, in other words, one stamp. Beside that, it says the old rate for a "flat" was 98 cents, which I'd always thought was just 2 f/c stamps, or 2 x 49, equaling 98, further reinforcing the evidence my memory of 49 cents was correct.</p>
<p>Next---it has the new f/c rate as $.0485, or 48.5 cents. Since when have they ever priced stamps to a half-cent level??? If you want to mail a flat, that comes out to 97 cents (2 x 48.5), not the 98 cents they require for a flat. So you're supposed to put on 2 48.5 cent stamps and then hunt down a cent stamp and add it when you want to mail a flat???</p>
<p>I like the simple media mail chart they have on this site. I just hope it isn't as messed up as the other info on here seems to be.</p>
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<p>And they're making great headway!</p>
<p>I found the notice here ---</p>
<p><a href="http://io9.com/the-university-of-iowa-brings-fanzines-to-the-digital-w-1720155978?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&amp;utm_source=io9_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow">http://io9.com/the-university-of-iowa-brings-fanzines-to-the-digital-w-1720155978?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&amp;utm_source=io9_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow</a></p>
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<p>But the actual story is over here…</p>
<p>And they're making great headway!</p>
<p>I found the notice here ---</p>
<p><a href="http://io9.com/the-university-of-iowa-brings-fanzines-to-the-digital-w-1720155978?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&amp;utm_source=io9_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow">http://io9.com/the-university-of-iowa-brings-fanzines-to-the-digital-w-1720155978?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&amp;utm_source=io9_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow</a></p>
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<p>But the actual story is over here --</p>
<p><a href="http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/07/digital-resources/university-of-iowa-libraries-begin-to-digitize-decades-of-fan-fiction/#_">http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/07/digital-resources/university-of-iowa-libraries-begin-to-digitize-decades-of-fan-fiction/#_</a></p>
<p>University of Iowa Libraries Begin to Digitize Decades of Fanzines</p>
<p>Every library has a sci-fi section, but not many can compete with the collection of speculative fiction that has been growing steadily at the University of Iowa (UI) in recent years. While the UI Libraries boast an impressive collection of works by notable authors in the genre, it’s not the focus of UI’s universe-spanning sci-fi collections.</p>
<p>Instead, Peter Balestrieri, Curator of Science Fiction and Popular Culture Collections for UI Libraries, and his colleagues are working to preserve the writings and records of fan communities. While these fandoms have become increasingly accessible and well known since the advent of digital communication, they are nearly as old as the genre itself—and in some cases, nearly as storied.</p>
<p>“Our collecting emphasis on fandoms and fan-created/related materials is solid and ongoing, as is our connection to fan communities and our dedication to helping them preserve and provide access to their histories for research and pleasure,” Balestrieri told <em>Library Journal</em>.</p>
<p>Those connections to groups like The Organization for Transformative Works, and the library’s emphasis on, for lack of a better term, fan-service, are helping the new collections to snowball. In just the last few years, the University of Iowa’s libraries have received numerous collections from lifelong sci-fi fans and avid collectors, amounting to thousands of volumes of both professionally produced titles like the long-running sci-fi magazine <em>Analog</em>, and fan-made content. Most recently, Sioux Falls collector Allen Lewis <a href="http://www.infodocket.com/2015/06/21/south-dakota-man-donates-nearly-18000-volume-collection-of-science-fiction-books-to-university-of-iowa-library/" target="_blank">donated to UI</a> his collection of 17,500 books worth an estimated three quarters of a million dollars. Most are hard bound, first editions, first printings.</p>
<p>Now, the pulps and passion projects alike will be getting properly preserved and digitized so they can be made accessible to readers and researchers the world over. The library’s digitization efforts are led by Digital Project Librarian Laura Hampton. She’s just a few weeks into the first leg of the project, <a href="http://www.infodocket.com/2014/11/12/digitization-projects-university-of-iowa-libraries-plans-to-digitize-collection-of-10000-science-fiction-fanzines/">digitizing some 10,000 titles</a> from the collection of Rusty Hevelin, a collector and genre aficionado whose collection came to the <a href="http://www.infodocket.com/2012/04/16/significant-science-fiction-collection-comes-to-the-university-of-iowa-libraries/">library in 2012</a>.</p>
<p class="Subhead">ZINE FANS</p>
<p>“These fanzines paint an almost outrageously clear picture of early fandom,” said Hampton. “If you read through every single fanzine in our collection, you would have a pretty solid idea of all the goings-on that shaped early fandom—the major players, the dramas, the developments and changes, and who instigated and opposed them. There is an incredible cultural history here that cannot be replicated.”</p>
<p>Labors of love driven by community rather than commerce, fanzines were often printed on the cheap using technology like mimeographs and hectographs, and held together will staples or tape, said Hampton, noting that “all the material things that make a fanzine a fanzine are also what make them difficult to preserve.”</p>
<p>Decades after they were produced, preserving these magazines is both a challenge and a priority for Hampton. High acid paper is flaking and finely rendered illustrations are fading, and with them, the records of thriving fan communities stretching back as far as the 1930s, predating heated debates over Kirk vs Picard by decades. These communities were as lively as any message board conversation or LiveJournal debate. That preservation is especially important in the case of sci-fi, saidHampton, because of the genre’s rich history of fan interaction and contribution.</p>
<p>“This is not an overview or analysis of science fiction; these are the very objects that built it, publications made by fans for fans, in basements and living rooms across the world—this is the material history of the genre,” she said of the Hevelin collection and others like it. “Science fiction is an immense tapestry, and all of these publications must be recognized as threads in order to better understand the whole picture.”</p>
<p>Once the titles are digitized, they’ll become the basis of a searchable database that UI is counting on volunteers to develop through crowdsourced transcription, a method that has proven successful for other <a href="http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/academic-libraries/cooking-up-a-crowdsourced-digitization-project-that-scales/">similar projects</a> under the auspices of UI Libraries’ <a href="http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/">DIYHistory</a> project. That database, Balestrieri hopes, will be a valuable resource for the growing number of scholars interested in studying not just science fiction, but the way that fans interact with the genre and how those interactions have evolved over time.</p>
<p>“These fandoms are increasingly impossible to ignore,” said Balestrieri “And the move to study them seriously grows with every PhD candidate that gains permission to write her dissertation on zombies.”</p>
<p></p> Zine comicstag:wemakezines.ning.com,2015-07-18:2288844:Topic:4317422015-07-18T22:06:09.893ZAlyciahttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alycia
<p>Does anyone make comic books or zines with comics in them? I love hand drawn comics let me know if you make any or are willing to trade them. Im thinking of making a comic book and would like some handmade ones to look at.</p>
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<p>Or post your comics below so people can check them out.</p>
<p>Does anyone make comic books or zines with comics in them? I love hand drawn comics let me know if you make any or are willing to trade them. Im thinking of making a comic book and would like some handmade ones to look at.</p>
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<p>Or post your comics below so people can check them out.</p> Beginning Zine-Making?tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2015-07-07:2288844:Topic:4307792015-07-07T20:32:12.669ZAlyciahttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alycia
<p>I really love and adore all of the hard work and commitment it takes for one to make a zine, and I want in. I like to create and make new stuff, and I really want to start making my own zines to share what I find to be intriguing or helpful or creative. The big question: How do I start? How do I get people interested in receiving or contributing to my zines? Do I charge money for them? Please help! Thanks!</p>
<p>I really love and adore all of the hard work and commitment it takes for one to make a zine, and I want in. I like to create and make new stuff, and I really want to start making my own zines to share what I find to be intriguing or helpful or creative. The big question: How do I start? How do I get people interested in receiving or contributing to my zines? Do I charge money for them? Please help! Thanks!</p> Making a fanzine for your favourite TV programmetag:wemakezines.ning.com,2015-07-02:2288844:Topic:4299032015-07-02T18:41:51.046ZAlyciahttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alycia
<p>I am a huge Walking Dead fan and would love to make a zine about it. The writing will all be my own but I'm a little stuck on pictures - my people drawing skills aren't good and online photos will be copyrighted. I just wondered if anyone on here has ever made a fanzine for a show or film, and if there are any image options I haven't thought of yet?</p>
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<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>I am a huge Walking Dead fan and would love to make a zine about it. The writing will all be my own but I'm a little stuck on pictures - my people drawing skills aren't good and online photos will be copyrighted. I just wondered if anyone on here has ever made a fanzine for a show or film, and if there are any image options I haven't thought of yet?</p>
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<p>Thanks :)</p> Distros?tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2015-07-01:2288844:Topic:4296782015-07-01T18:24:59.959ZAlyciahttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alycia
<p>I'm just wondering how people get their zines into distros, and maybe if there is a list available somewhere of the ones that are accepting submissions? </p>
<p>I'm just wondering how people get their zines into distros, and maybe if there is a list available somewhere of the ones that are accepting submissions? </p> Confessions of a Degeneratetag:wemakezines.ning.com,2015-06-30:2288844:Topic:4298322015-06-30T18:10:06.895ZAlyciahttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alycia
<p>Trying to contact the author of a zine called "Confessions of a Degenerate." Anyone ever heard of this zine? Thanks!</p>
<p>Trying to contact the author of a zine called "Confessions of a Degenerate." Anyone ever heard of this zine? Thanks!</p> Tabling at Atlanta Zine Fest - Looking for Art & Article Submissionstag:wemakezines.ning.com,2015-06-29:2288844:Topic:4295152015-06-29T19:26:11.772ZAlyciahttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alycia
<p>Hello fellow Zinesters! </p>
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<p>No Apologies is looking for art, music reviews, social and personal columns, poetry, for our latest zine which will encompass May, June, and July submissions. The selected submissions will be held in our largest issue yet. All those who submit will be mailed an issue. </p>
<p>Send all submissions to tricia.callahan@noapologiesmagazine.com</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Hello fellow Zinesters! </p>
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<p>No Apologies is looking for art, music reviews, social and personal columns, poetry, for our latest zine which will encompass May, June, and July submissions. The selected submissions will be held in our largest issue yet. All those who submit will be mailed an issue. </p>
<p>Send all submissions to tricia.callahan@noapologiesmagazine.com</p>
<p>Thank you!</p> Help needed for new issuetag:wemakezines.ning.com,2015-06-24:2288844:Topic:4291942015-06-24T01:56:26.719ZAlyciahttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alycia
<p>Hello all. I'm trying to make a quarter sized Jewish positivity zine right now. I'm super excited about it, but I know that it will be expensive. I have a <a href="http://patreon.com/sputnikvi" target="_blank">Patreon</a> but no patrons or other ways of making money to print this and send contributor copies. Given the nature of the zine, I'd also like to be able to send it out for free. So my question...</p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-7">HOW DO YOU GUYS AFFORD MORE THAN…</span></strong></p>
<p>Hello all. I'm trying to make a quarter sized Jewish positivity zine right now. I'm super excited about it, but I know that it will be expensive. I have a <a href="http://patreon.com/sputnikvi" target="_blank">Patreon</a> but no patrons or other ways of making money to print this and send contributor copies. Given the nature of the zine, I'd also like to be able to send it out for free. So my question...</p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-7">HOW DO YOU GUYS AFFORD MORE THAN MINIZINES OH MY GOD. </span></strong></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2">If you could donate to my Patreon that would be great, but I'm also SUPER interested in how you guys fund your zines long term.</span></p> What's your viewpoint on AntiFAtag:wemakezines.ning.com,2015-06-12:2288844:Topic:4284142015-06-12T08:40:43.842ZAlyciahttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alycia
<p>Anti-fascism is opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. The anti-fascist movement began in a few European countries in the 1920s, and eventually spread to other countries around the world.</p>
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<p><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/j2M1I3T7jzk5vGy-AIGW07v28z8MDIB-6q*8VqUgaijV3UvABzwLKMZctrg-YlD3m1n5mAOi1oBUti3xfm0eDtCgZD4tyd1G/683pxAntifasistische_Aktion_logo.svg.png" target="_self"><img class="align-center" height="223" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/j2M1I3T7jzk5vGy-AIGW07v28z8MDIB-6q*8VqUgaijV3UvABzwLKMZctrg-YlD3m1n5mAOi1oBUti3xfm0eDtCgZD4tyd1G/683pxAntifasistische_Aktion_logo.svg.png" width="223"></img></a> What's your personal viewpoint on…</p>
<p>Anti-fascism is opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. The anti-fascist movement began in a few European countries in the 1920s, and eventually spread to other countries around the world.</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/j2M1I3T7jzk5vGy-AIGW07v28z8MDIB-6q*8VqUgaijV3UvABzwLKMZctrg-YlD3m1n5mAOi1oBUti3xfm0eDtCgZD4tyd1G/683pxAntifasistische_Aktion_logo.svg.png"><img class="align-center" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/j2M1I3T7jzk5vGy-AIGW07v28z8MDIB-6q*8VqUgaijV3UvABzwLKMZctrg-YlD3m1n5mAOi1oBUti3xfm0eDtCgZD4tyd1G/683pxAntifasistische_Aktion_logo.svg.png" width="223" height="223"/></a>What's your personal viewpoint on AntiFA?</p>